WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

U.S. commander: Tension at 'unprecedented level'

'Greatest fear is of a 'miscalculation' that could cause 'a kinetic provocation'

Published: 04/03/2013 at 8:03 PM

(Korea Times) Gen. James Thurman, commander of the United States Forces Korea (USFK), said Wednesday that the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is unprecedentedly volatile and dangerous.

Thurman, concurrently the commander of the United Nations Command here, said he worries about a worst-case scenario in which the North’s elite, including its leader Kim Jong-un, could make erroneous calculations and ill-fated provocations.